As a mildly interesting bit of fluff you might be interested in in passing... from James Gordon's e-newsletter message yesterday...

[James Gordon] Last week my song "Frobisher Bay", which is all grown up now and living on its own in a loft condo, was named the winner of a Canadian CBC Radio contest on "This Morning". The 'Who Knows Junos' contest asked listeners to call in and sing their favourite Canadian song. The winning entry was performed by a Toronto a capella group called Restless Eve. I missed the whole thing since I was in the U.S... but I hear that the song narrowly defeated Stan Rogers' "Barrett's Privateers", (which would have got my vote)...Last week I heard another lovely rendition of "Frobisher Bay" sung by a great choir from Cobourg Ontario called "La Jeunesse"-- It's on an excellent new CD called "Stolen Child"- the CD also includes Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage"-- It's available through Box 925 Cobourg ON K9A 7W4... very cool... And heh, speaking of cool... a couple of weeks back my new song "Funny Old World" from the "One Timeless Moment" CD was listed as one of the "Top Ten Coolest Songs of the Week" by the Toronto Sun newspaper. I am so UNcool, really, that I didn't recognize any of the other acts on the list.....

I did an outdoor show in january in Baggeridge Country Park,near wolverhampton (UK).It was a sort of guided walk with enertainment along the way.It was in the middle of a seriously cold spell. So I cut a huge load of ice from one of the lakes and built an ice sculpture round a bonfire well primed with paraffin, beside another frozen lake. When the audience arrived ( in the dark) we sang "Frobisher Bay" by the lightof a wax torch and at the end I chucked the torch into the pile of ice and "Whoooomph" up shot theflames out of the ice . magic, and inspired by a truly magic song. Glad it's winning prizes.If you know James Gordon, I'd be grateful if you'ld pass this story on to him.

Well, for a while today, this thread was titled Frobisher Bay (Clinton Hammond). Heck, I almost believed for a moment myself that Clinton wrote it - and then I wondered if I had retitled the thread years ago, by mistake. I knew the song was the title song of an album by Tamarack - sure enough, the songwriter was James Gordon of Tamarack. I added the songwriter attribution to the lyrics Clinton posted. But if it had been written by you, Clinton, I would have had a whole new respect for you. It's a great song, even if you didn't write it. -Joe Offer-Click here for a recording (by James Gordon).